Fewer international students are coming to the US for post-graduate degrees in science and engineering. We look into why.
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(Image: Stanford bioengineer Haripriya Mukundarajan, center, began the Abuzz project after contracting malaria while she was in college. Credit: Kurt Hickman)
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